South Bend Police Department

South Bend Police Department has lost 15 officers across 111 years on record. 11 — 73.3% — were killed feloniously, meaning officers were deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty. This is 4.9 percentage points above the national average of 68.4% for Others — reflecting the particular danger faced by officers in this jurisdiction.

4 officers were lost to accidents — 26.7% of this agency's fallen, compared to 22.3% nationally for Others. Across this agency's history, roughly 1 in every 4 officers who died did so in an accident.